Next Generation Connectivity

Contributors

This report represents the outcome of a substantial and engaged team effort, most extensively by Berkman Center researchers, with many contributions from others elsewhere at Harvard and in other institutions and centers around the world. I am deeply indebted to the many and diverse contributions that each and every one of them made.

The project would not have been possible without the tremendous effort and engagement by the leadership team.

Each of our country overviews and annexes was researched, authored and edited by a fantastic group of colleagues, research assistants and friends that resulted both in the overviews and in informing the main document.

Jerome Baudry

James Kwok

Lee Baker

Alan Lenarcic

Eliane Bucher

Parina Patel

Anjali Dalal

Debbie Rosenbaum

Gildas de Muizon

Tarek Saghir

Jan Gerlach

Olivier Sautel

Jock Given

Marta Stryszowska

Andrew Goodman

Lara Srivastava

Hank Greenberg

Andrea Von Kaenel

Pascal Herzog

Asa Wilks

This report would also not been possible without the researching, annotating, copy editing, spreadsheeting, cheerleading and organizing provided by Berkman Center staff and interns and the Harvard Law School Library staff.

Catherine Bracy

Ramesh Nagarajan

June Casey

Caroline Nolan

Bruce Etling

Antwuan Wallace

Sawyer Carter Jacobs

Catherine White

Colin Maclay

Jillian York

Seth Young

I am also very pleased to acknowledge the help from colleagues and people with knowledge and access to data who helped think through the design of the studies, answer specific questions, or otherwise improved the work and our understanding immeasurably.

Nathaniel Beck

Dominique Boullier

Michael Burstein

(critical reading of the main document)

John de Ridder

(access to data included in econometrics of unbundling)

Jaap Doleman

Henk Doorenspleet

Andy Eggers

Antii Eskola

(Finnish telecommunications)

Epitiro

(answers to questions about actual testing data produced by the company)

William Fisher

Daniel Haeusermann

Mizuko Ito

(Japanese broadband uses)

Gary King

William Lehr

Francois Lévêque

Jun Makihara

Ookla Net Metrics; Mike Apgar

(access to speedtest.net data)

Simon Osterwalder

(Switzerland)

HyeRyoung Ok

(South Korean usage patterns)

John Palfrey

Taylor Reynolds

(extensive answers about OECD data)

David Sraer

James Thurman

Derek Turner

(data for replicating urbanicity study)

Dirk Van der Woude

(fiber in Europe; Amsterdam)

Nico Van Eijk

(Dutch and European telecommunications policy)

Jan van Rooijen

Herman Wagter

(municipal fiber; Amsterdam; topology)

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent

Finally, I am proud and grateful of the support we received from the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Both foundations were remarkably open and flexible in their willingness to receive and process our requests for funding in lightening speed, so as to allow us to respond to this highly time-sensitive request to support the FCC’s efforts, while maintaining complete independence from the agency. We have been extremely fortunate in our relationships with both foundations, and I am particularly grateful to the remarkable people whom we have been able to work on this project: Jenny Toomey from Ford, and Connie Yowell and Valerie Chang from MacArthur.